The Infinite Enlargement of the Heart..... Our Calling for 2013 and Beyond
Our minster Norma Nakai Burton has returned from her journey to Mayan lands for the great solstice shift of 2012. She will be speaking to us of her adventures there and of the movement we are all making in our innermost selves towards the New Year of 2013.
Giving of ourselves is our ultimate happiness.
James Baldwin, African American philosopher and novelist, wrote:
"It is rare indeed that people give.
Most people guard and keep;
they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping,
whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself—
that is to say, risking oneself.
If one cannot risk oneself,
then one is simply incapable of giving."
In this new year, this renewed opportunity is upon us to reach out to our better selves,that we may love more and hate less, care more and reject less, that bound together by understanding, we may sustain each other through trial and tribulation, through joy and happiness, through sickness and health. In our Unity community we seek to be joined in a common purpose of hope and fulfillment. We seek a common, holy ground for one and all.The Great Spirit of Life, comes to us to break down barriers; to widen our horizons and to make us less judgmental. Helping us to see the larger picture and the kinder conclusion; to love and let live; to embrace and forgive; to sustain and care.
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